Re: test11-pre5, Athlon, and Machine Check Architecture

Rogier Wolff
2000-11-15T21:45:32Z

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> crash; I don't expect anyone to actually see an #MF exception in real
> life. I'm trying to get confirmation from AMD that the code should
> be correct even for Athlon.

Peter,

Would it be an idea to invite people to lower the voltage on their
CPUs a bit, to try and trigger #MF's?

(I started thinking about slowly overclocking the CPUs, to try and
trigger them, but that's not neccesary. At lower voltages, you'll also
get errors, but shouldn't risk smoking your CPU.... )

Roger.

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